Why is Premiere eating up my disk space?

[Jarek Zabczynski]

So I start a render and wake up to an error message that says something about my disk space running low. Sure enough my boot drive now has like 250MB of space on it. I quit Premiere and the space slowly comes back. I have all my scratch and cache, etc... settings set for places on other drives, what is going on? Any help would be great.

 

[BrandonChristensen]

Are you running Lion?

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

I'm extremely curious about this, as well, as I keep running into this, too.

CS5.5 10.5.8

Stephen

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Are you running Lion?

10.6.8

I normally have about 30-40GB free on my boot SSD. All my scratch and cache preferences are pointing to other disks. Yet when I render my timeline I watch my boot drive start to drastically dip in space. After a couple minutes it will already be down a few gigs, yet it's only rendered like a second or two of material, r3d with CC and other FX applied. If I stop and quit Premiere, my disk space slowly comes back up. I'm lost here. What are the invisible Adobe elves doing on my boot drive?

 

[Dr. Sassi]

I have installed the iCleanMemory (Mac). I saw that the used memory wasn't cleaned out after a "cycle", and then everything went to the disk. Works for me.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icleanmemory/id439277582?mt=12

If the Ram capacity is reached it cleans it out (what Pr or Ae didn't has given back to the system for that cycle), which stops shortly the flow. It is $1.99, much better than to free the memory via command line -- manually.

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Shouldn't there's be a way to set virtual memory to a disk like in AE? Is there a secret menu?

 

[Scott Crawley]

http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/08/mac-virtual-memory-swap/